- A manhunt begins for an invisible killer who steals human pigmentation.
- Murders occur in which the victims are initially thought to be albinos, but when the body count reaches four, it seems evident something else is happening and gets the attention of Fringe Division. Blood at one such scene is traced to a strange, pale baby hypersensitive to light who supposedly died four days after his birth in 1989, but U-gene (for Unknown) Bryant almost certainly survived and came to the attention of the body that later became Massive Dynamic, where he became the subject of intensive experiments. Walter demonstrates that UV light can reveal an otherwise invisible mouse. He theorizes that an invisible U-gene is absorbing the victims' pigments in an attempt to become normal. He's going to need a lot of pigment, so more bodies are expected, but in doing so, he is unwittingly altering his genetic makeup in a way which will ultimately be suicidal. Armed with UV lights, the Fringe team raid the apartment where the deaths have occurred. In a confrontation with Olivia, she pleads with U-gene to come back to the lab and let Walter try to fix him, but U-gene has had enough of labs. He longs to be visible and to have a normal, intimate relationship with another. He fades in and out of invisibility, his visibility lengthening as he absorbs more pigment, but just as he finally seems to have succeeded in his quest, he expires. Meanwhile, the "migraines" which Olivia has been experiencing recently clearly have something to do with interventions by Massive Dynamic, with Nina Sharp's knowledge, where Olivia is rendered unconscious by gas, then given an injection.—Movie Fiend
- When a man is murdered at the front door of his apartment building apparently by a ghost, the Fringe Division is assigned to investigate the case. The man has the appearance of albino and Walter finds that his pigment has been extracted. Soon Astrid informs that there are two other cases of death of albinos. When Walter analyzes the DNA of a mucus in the victim, they discover that it belongs to a child that was reported dead in 1989. Olivia investigation finds that his body was sent to a company that became the Massive Dynamic and she visits Nina Sharp. Soon Olivia leans that the child has the mysterious U(Unknown)-gene and was submitted to the most different experiments for military application. Further, she concludes that the man is trying to use the pigment to become visible, but Walter tells that he will die. But the problem is when and how many victims he will kill before he dies.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- When a man mysteriously dies by an invisible force, his body rapidly begins turning ghostly white. The Fringe team learns that this is not an isolated incident, and there's evidence that links the predator to someone who passed away with an unknown genetic disorder. Meanwhile, Olivia suffers from migraines.—Fox Publicity
- Late at night, Olivia goes for a bottle of pills in her bathroom. It's empty. She heads out to the drug store, her head is killing her. She picks up her prescription refill and pops the pill at the counter. It's her last refill.
She heads home, passing by a diner. She notices Lincoln sitting at the counter and goes in. Her migraine is better. She joins him for coffee.
Sitting in a diner booth, he tells her that he hasn't been sleeping. She assures him he'll get used to the weirdness.
Cut to a man in a suit walking down an alley in Beacon Hill, nervously looking behind him. His wife calls and he says he's nearby but feels like he's being followed. He keeps checking behind him, but sees nothing. A puddle makes a splash like someone stepped in it, but no one's there. He reaches his apartment building. His wife calls as he's at the front door. She called the cops. He's walking in the front door when he gets knocked from behind.
The cops pull up and go inside and find the man on the floor. His hair is white, his skin is pale and his eyes are red. He's dead.
One cop senses something behind him and draws his gun. He sees movement, like an invisible man, and fires, but hits nothing.
Peter goes shopping with his FBI escort, Tim. Tim won't let him reach a toy for a kid. He's been instructed to limit Peter's interaction with civilians. Peter has been investigating Fringe events for three years, but never thought he'd become one.
At the scene, Lincoln and Olivia talk to the cops. The one who fired his gun is sheepish, saying he over-reacted. Lincoln assures him he won't get judged if it sounds ridiculous. He says he felt something. Lincoln suggests a ghost.
From his lab, Walter isn't much help. Lincoln looks at the broken glass, a piece of which has a drop of blood on it.
Olivia asks Astrid if what they see ever gets to her. Astrid sees a department shrink and says her head would have exploded otherwise. Olivia doesn't talk to anyone and is starting to think that's weird.
Lincoln shows them the blood sample. Ghosts don't bleed.
In a dingy room filled with knick knacks, two giant glass containers holding murky green fluid boil over burners. The fluid goes into a tub that has an air hose coming out of it. There's a man in it, totally submerged. He pops up and examines himself.
The man, now in a suit and tie, waits for an elevator in an apartment. He lets an empty one pass, seeming to wait for someone. He gets on when it comes back with a woman on it. He eyeballs her, but another man gets on and they chat and the man and woman get off at the same floor. He looks at his reflection in the elevator panel. Slowly, he starts to fade away.
Back in the lab, Olivia has found reports of three other similar deaths. They thought the people were albinos.
Walter examines the body and finds a residue. Under the microscope he finds they're cells like chameleons use to blend into their surroundings.
Astrid traces the blood sample to a baby boy Bryant, who supposedly only lived for four days in 1989.
Olivia and Lincoln look up his records in the hospital. He was born with an unclassified genetic variant. Olivia gets another migraine and goes for her pills.
They talk to the nurse who cared for him. She tells them he was pale and the lights in the OR burned his skin. The doctor told her he died. She remembers when they carried him out she thought she heard him cry. A private insurance company called Cyprox took the body for an autopsy. It's owned by a subsidiary that became Massive Dynamic.
Olivia visits Nina and MD. She knows about the baby and that he was suitable for genetic testing. His mutation helped keep him alive in the testing facility, which burned to the ground ten years ago. That was the first Nina heard of it. They assumed "U-Gene" (short for "unknown gene") had died in the fire, but it was impossible to prove. Olivia is disturbed by the fact he grew up in a lab and never had a proper name.
Back in the apartment building, the same woman gets off the elevator and goes to her room. Invisible U-gene follows her in. She pours herself some wine. U-gene watches her as she goes looking for her dog. She goes in her bedroom and finds leaves all over her bed and freaks out. She hears her apartment door close and finds it unlocked.
Peter looks at diagrams in his house when there's a knock at the door. It's Lincoln bringing blueprints for Peter. Peter hopes the machine can get him home. He notices Lincoln is fond of Olivia, but he doesn't mind, saying the Olivia he's talking about isn't his Olivia.
Lincoln gets called to the lab. Walter screws in a bright light and shows Olivia and Lincoln his tiny octopus in a tank. Olivia wonders if U-gene is killing people to steal their pigment.
Walter thinks the mucus on the victim's body is working as a conductor to help him absorb the victim's pigment. U-gene would need a lot of pigment to overcome what's been done to him. He expects more victims.
The other man who was chatting with U-gene's crush gets into his car below the apartment building. Suddenly, the glass is punched out and invisible U-gene is throttling him.
Back in the lab, Walter wants to show everyone something. He announces their suspect is dying. He puts a mouse in a maze and explains that U-gene is messing with his pigment, he could be exposing the genetic condition he was born with that could kill him. He doesn't know it, but he's committing suicide.
He claps off the lights and shines ultraviolet light on the maze. There's another mouse in the maze, invisible until the light. They get a call to the apartment.
Security says no doors opened or closed during the attack. A dog goes bonkers smelling something. They lock down the building, turn off the lights and bring in SWAT teams. They conduct a search using ultra-violet flashlights and dogs.
Olivia is with a team checking the stairwell, but splits from them to check a floor under construction. The dogs bark after a scent in the stairwell.
Alone in the renovated apartment, Olivia walks by ladders and plastic tarps. Suddenly, the ground falls out from beneath her. There was a hole in the floor covered by a tarp.
The dog teams find U-gene's shirt in the stairwell, but no trace of him.
Up in the apartment, Olivia struggles to keep from plunging through to the floor below. U-gene is there, glowing in the ultra-violet. She asks him for help and he lectures her on how important being seen is to her right now.
He helps her up and grabs her gun. She tells him whatever he's doing to himself is killing him. She asks him to let them help him heal. He thinks if they're there it's because he has value as an experiment to the military. She says they have nothing to do with that.
U-gene tells her what it's been like to watch people make connections and interact and fall in love. She tells him again that if he treats himself, he could die.
Lincoln and the dog search teams find Olivia's floor. They race around looking for him. Olivia sees her gun laying on the floor.
Later outside, Olivia and Lincoln report that they've searched everywhere and couldn't find him. As they let the apartment dwellers back in, we see visible U-gene walk out. The dogs bark in the van.
They get called back inside and find U-gene's collection of trinkets and makeshift lab in the basement. Olivia realizes what U-gene is doing isn't about curing himself, it's about being seen.
U-gene's crush rides the elevator. The doors are about to close when he stops them and gets on. She turns and talks to him, saying she thought he wasn't going to make it today. They make 30 seconds of small talk and he introduces himself. She tells him her name is Julie.
The elevator doors open and she gets off. He smiles, quietly overjoyed to have made a connection. Then he slumps to the floor.
Olivia tells Nina they found U-gene Bryant's body, so it's over. Olivia is still bothered by the experiments he went through. Nina thinks Olivia is thinking about her own experiments as a child. Olivia worries the Cortexaphan trials might have stunted her emotional grown.
Nina assures her she's perfectly normal and that life is a big experiment, about taking risks. Nina can't imagine what her own life would have been like if she hadn't taken the risk of taking in Olivia and her sister (except where Peter comes from, she didn't).
Nina assures her when the time is right, she'll know when to take a risk.
At Fringe, Peter brings Lincoln a present and heads off to use the lab. Olivia checks in with Lincoln about their paperwork. She pauses, then suggests she might see him at the diner around 3 a.m.
Lincoln checks out the present from Peter -- a new pair of glasses.
Later, at the diner, wearing his new glasses, Lincoln waits for Olivia and does the crossword. Olivia gets ready at her place, debating how to wear her hair.
She's tying her shoes when a gas comes in under her door. She's quickly knocked out. Two men come in. They check a surveillance camera in the corner of the room and inject her with something. One says she'll have a hell of a headache when she wakes up.
A third figure waits at the door. The camera pans back and we see it's Nina Sharp.
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